Inventario Uno

Inventario uno is a compilation of Mario Benedetti's entire poetic career between 1950 and 1985: Solo mientras tanto (1950), Poemas de la oficina (1956), Poemas del hoyporhoy (1961), Nocion de patria (1963), Proximo projimo (1965), Contra los puentes levadizos (1966), A ras del sueno (1967), Quemas las naves (1969), Letras de emergencia (1973), Poemas de otros (1974), La casa y el ladrillo (1977), Cotidianas (1979), Viento del exilio (1981), and Geografias (1984). Some of the poems that were later turned into songs appear in their two versions -- poem and song -- each one included in the...